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Join us for two special events where our Planner product team shares what is coming to the new Microsoft Planner.   In our Meet the Makers virtual event on April 3 rd , leaders from the Planner p...
EmilyPerina
Updated Dec 27, 2024
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ajewson
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Apr 04, 2024
Hi - Jut wanted to clarify an earlier response to a question. If you look a the service description here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/project-online-service-description/project-web-service-description you see footnote 8 saying that the majority of features under Office 365 licenses are only available in the Default environment but there's no roadmap date to make them available in named environments - correct? The advice from MS partners is too use named environments for better control and security so there is a real dilemma.
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NancyatMSFT
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Apr 04, 2024
Thanks for your feedback Andrew - you are correct that we don't have a date at this time for when these capabilities would be introduced to named/custom environments. Microsoft 365 users in named/custom environments would continue to have the access to the capabilities they had previously - as in they still can view premium plans, and if they have an E3/E5 license they can additionally update the percent completion of a task assigned to them.
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    Stephanie88
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    Apr 16, 2024

    NancyatMSFT 

    Good day.  I opted to utilize Planner versus Project for the Web because in Planner E3 users can add comments to update task status. If I understand correctly, when we are migrated to the new Planner, we will no longer be able to update task comments as E3 users? If so, can you please reconsider and allow E3/E5 users to:

    1. Mark complete
    2. Change %complete
    3. Add task comments

    This allows a PM to save extraordinary amounts of time by not having to reach out to many, many individuals to obtain updates. We also don't want to lose functionality we have in Planner with this change. We can't afford give 100s or 1000s of users P1 licensing. To effectively run a project any user in an organization can be a project team member.

    Thank you.